Pesto Pride

I am so proud of myself I can hardly stand it. For the first time ever, I made my own homemade pesto with basil from my very own basil plants on my porch! I've waited weeks and weeks and weeks for my basil plants to be big and strong enough where I could get enough leaves. Kyle and I both love pesto and I saw this recipe from the Pioneer Woman (love her!) and have been wanting to try it for a while now. It was delicious! Usually I don't do tomatoes, but I was surprised that I actually ate them in this dish. I also added chicken because it felt right. Anyway, it's super easy and you should try it if you haven't! This is PW's picture, I didn't take my own picture because I was too excited about eating it that I forgot. *grin*

Christmas Goodies

The holiday baking has begun!!! Here's what I've done so far:

I tried a new Peppermint Bark recipe...

and I'm in love!!! These are amazing!

Sausage balls make the list every year!

Peanut Blossoms!!

Chocolate and peanut butter is my absolute favorite food combination in the whole world!!

What goodies are you making this year??

New Recipes

Funny thing about germs.... I work in a hospital and never get sick. I watch a few kids for a few hours and two days later and I'm sick. Kids are germ infested little stinkers, yes they are. So since I was stuck on the couch sick all week, I had a lot of time to think and search the internet. I took the time to search for some new recipes. I love to try new recipes but somehow I seem to always get stuck in the rut of cooking the same things over and over.

Here are a few of the experiments...

NOTE: These are not my pictures, just the closest thing I could find to what my food actually looked like :)

Stuffed shells! Definitely a keeper.



Calzones... this was one of Kyle's favs!



KEY LIME PIE!!! Kyle has been asking me for a while to learn how to make Key Lime pie since it's his favorite dessert. I have been asking around and finally found someone who had a very easy and super yummy recipe. It was delicious!